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- Subject: Re: Mind-reading trick
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:42:43 GMT
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- Alan Miranda (amiranda@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com) wrote:
- : This should wow your buddies ... it is a series of instructions where the
- : answer to any instruction should be used in the next instruction ...
- :
- : Think of a number from 1 to 9
- 4.11111111111111...
- : Multiply it by 9
- I get 37
- : Add the two digits of your answer. E.g.: 9 => 0 + 9; 18 => 1 + 8, etc.
- 10
- : Subtract 5
- 5
- : If a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, etc., find the letter which corresponds to your
- : answer to the previous instruction
- e
- : Now think of a country whose name starts with that letter
- England
- : Now take the second letter of that country's name and think of a large, land
- : animal whose name starts with that letter
- A nelephant
- : Now think of the color of that animal
- Nelephant colored
- : I bet you were thinking of a large, grey elephant from Denmark !!!
- Close...I was thinking of a nelephant colored nelephant from england.
-
- (Actually when I first did this I honestly got a Danish emu, but I don't know
- what color emus are. They're probably variegated.)
-
- Marlon
-